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Concise Bible Dictionary: O
By:
George A. Morrish
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The Hebrew is
peres
, which signifies “breaking,” and ossifrage signifies “bone breaker.” This has led to the identifying the bird with the one now known as the Lammergeier (
Gypaetus barbatus
), which is a species of vulture, though it has the appearance of an eagle, its neck being covered with feathers. It attacks a carcass when the vultures have finished: picks the bones, and then breaks them to feed upon the marrow. It does this by carrying them up to a height and letting them fall upon a stone or rock till they break. The shells of tortoises are broken in the same way by them. In the Levitical economy it was an unclean bird (
Lev. 11:13
13
And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray, (Leviticus 11:13)
;
Deut. 14:12
12
But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray, (Deuteronomy 14:12)
).
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